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VAMPISOUL

£29.96

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: VAMPILP253
Barcode: 8435008864064
Release Date: Apr 2022
Genre: Jazz

TRACKS
A1 Cant Buy Me Love
A2 Michelle
A3 A Hard Days Nigth
A4 Girl
A5 Ticket To Ride
A6 I Should Have Known Better
B1 Help
B2 Yesterday
B3 All My Loving
B4 And I Love Her
B5 Ask Me Why
B6 If I Fell

First time vinyl reissue.

Rare 1966 Brazilian LP with a jazz/bossa nova take on songs by the Beatles performed by the very talented Manfredo Fest and his trio. It was originally released right after their classic 1965 RGE album and has a very similar jazz-based sound. Manfredo Fest was part of the gathering of Brazilian musicians of the late-'50s who were developing the bossa nova movement, and he made a number of trio recordings in that vein from 1961 to 1966. After emigrating to Minneapolis in 1967, Fest moved to Los Angeles where he served as keyboardist and arranger for Bossa Rio and toured with Sergio Mendes.

This recording is all instrumental, strongly jazz-based, with piano as the main solo instrument, soaring over the top of some tight, crackling rhythms! The songs are all played with imaginative scents that really take them from their roots as pop songs and open them up as groovers filled with keyboard improvisations.

A nice slice of how the bossa nova sound was evolving in its homeland as well as the international impact the Beatles were having on countries outside of the U.S., England, Japan, and Germany.